This software was implemented by the Laboratory & Information Technology Department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering IBMT (St. Ingbert, Germany) as a contract work for the German Federal Environmental Agency. Initially, the application manages specimens with their data in a repository that are collected in the German Environmental Survey (GerES) carried out by the German Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt – UBA). Version 1.0 of the application was released in November 2014 under GNU Affero General Public License AGPLv3.
Please find further information here
- about GerES
http://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/health/assessing-environmentally-related-health-risks/german-environmental-survey-geres
- about Fraunhofer IBMT
https://www.ibmt.fraunhofer.de/de/ibmt-kernkompetenzen/ibmt-biomedizintechnik/ibmt-medizintechnik-neuroprothetik/ibmt-gesundheitsinformationssysteme.html
Features
- Management, search and retrieve of specimens data (including historical data).
- Registration of new specimen data by editing forms or importing via XLS.
- Documentation of specimen’s storage and other specimens processes (removing, relocating, pooling and aliquoting of specimens).
- Management of the repository (organisation of locations and containers).
- Management of logistical transactions (deliveries, shipments).
- Administration of application users (including access restrictions by authority assignment applying Spring Security).
- Maintenance of application base data (like surveys, institutions, specimen and container types).
- Dynamic extension of specimen’s parameters.
- RESTful services for accessing specimens data (applying Apache CXF).
- Java Web-Application in a three-tier-architecture applying Hibernate, Spring and JSF/PrimeFaces.
- Data persistence in a RDBMS (including audit trail) applying PostgreSQL as pilot system.